Eduardo Zilberberg

Practice Areas

Corporate; M&A; Venture Capital.

Career

Eduardo Zilberberg is a founding partner of the firm and co-head of its Venture Capital and M&A practices. He is widely regarded as one of the most seasoned lawyers in VC in Brazil.

For the past 9 years, Eduardo has represented the most active funds investing and high-profile technology companies in hundreds of VC investment rounds. Eduardo has been ranked among the most active VC and M&A lawyers in Brazil by TTR for the past 4 years in a row and has also acted in several flagship exit transactions, including Google’s USD1.1b acquisition of Waze and the successful IPO of Decolar.com.

Eduardo spent 5 years as an associate in Sullivan and Cromwell and Gunderson Dettmer law firms in New York, initially focusing on cross-border M&A and then on venture capital transactions, where he accumulated a wealth of experience in cross-border transactions and knowledge of Silicon Valley practices.

He holds an LL.M. degree in Corporate Governance from Stanford, a postgraduate degree in Corporate Law from FGV, and an LLB degree from PUC-SP.

Professional Memberships

He is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association and the New York Bar Association; and a mentor at startup accelerators Endeavor, ACE, and Latitud.